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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moscow embassy have been dropped for lack of evidence. Indeed, no Soviet bug has yet been found anywhere in the current embassy, and there is growing concern that the military may have either blown the investigation or blown it out of proportion or both. Says a ranking U.S. diplomat familiar with the case: "The charge that KGB agents were being led around the embassy has never been proved. There's never been any evidence that the embassy was compromised in any way, at least in connection with Bracy's and Lonetree's associations with Soviet women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holes in A Spy Scandal | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

...Secretary of State George Shultz was scheduled to arrive in Moscow for arms-control and summit discussions. The spy charges cast a pall over the Shultz mission; some State Department officials say that was one reason the charges were so well publicized, perhaps even hyped. Says a senior U.S. diplomat: "There are forces of darkness, if you want to call them that, who oppose any kind of long-term improvement in U.S.-Soviet relations." Even Republican Congressman Richard Cheney, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, concedes that some people inside the Reagan Administration "may well have" exploited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holes in A Spy Scandal | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

...worries about the Panama Canal's future. "Can you imagine what it would be like to have the canal in the hands of a Lebanon-like country?"asks a U.S. official. Whatever pressure the U.S. decides to bring, one thing is evident. Says Gabriel Lewis Galindo, a former Panamanian diplomat who heads the opposition's lobbying effort in Washington: "There will be no peace in Panama as long as Noriega is in power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panama The General Who Won't Go | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

...opposition, as well as a wide range of other South Koreans. Roh says he did not convey his momentous conclusion to Chun before going public with it on Monday. Longtime observers of the South Korean political scene, however, find that contention hard to believe. Says a Western diplomat in Seoul: "In an Asian culture such as this, it is unthinkable that he would take such a step without consulting the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea Suddenly, A New Day | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

...this, however, Roh seems convinced that his best chance is to run as the man who put aside partisanship and found a way out of a national political crisis. "He never would have announced this thing unless he thought he had a chance under it," says a Western diplomat. Because of Roh or Chun or both, South Korea suddenly has a chance as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea Suddenly, A New Day | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

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